Drawers



(No M0851.)

G. A. HUWB.

DRAWBBS. l No. 277,288. Patented M8y.8,1888.

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. UNITED STATES PATENT lEEIc-E.

GEORGE AHOWE, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

DRAWERS.

SPECIFICATIONVformng part of Letters Patent No. 277,283, dated May 8,1883.

Application nieu February 1o, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE A. Hows, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Drawers, ofwhich the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention-consists of drawers made in its part covering the abdomen with a number of vertical pieces, each cut with bias edges and stitched together at such bias edges, and the whole secured to the drawers to give a rounding shape thereto, and one substantially corresponding to the rotundity of the abdomen, and also in the part covering the rear of the persons body having the seam extend from the upper edge of the drawers in a direction curving to the right or left, and joining the seam in the corresponding leg portion of the drawers below the center or crotch, all substantially as hereinafterzfully described.

In the accompanying plate of drawings, Figures l and 2 are respectively front and rear views of the upper part of the drawers.; Fig. 3', a plan view of the two pieces forming the drawers wlthout the bias seams. Fig. 4 is a cross-section through the legs, with the seat of the drawers in plan view.

ln the drawings, Arepresents the two legs, B front part, and O the rear part, of the drawers, made of cloth or of any other suitable material, and, except as hereinafter stated, all as usual.

The front part, B, can be opened and closed at and along its vertical central line by buttons a, and which for such purpose is provided with button-holes b, as usual, and at each side thereof. The front part, B, ot the drawers is composed of a series of vertical pieces of cloth, c, each of which is cut with a bias along its edges, and is stitched `or sewed together, the one to the other, at and along such bias edges d, and, as a whole, secured in its proper place to the leg and rear portions of the drawers.

By this means the front of the drawers is given a rounding form, and thus made the better to fit the rotundity of the abdomen, which, as is well known, is the part of the persons body covered by the front part of the drawers, whereby it will serve as a support for the same. The front ot' the drawers, made as described, is preferably made of two thicknesses of material, each of which is composed of simiy lar bias pieces secured together, and the two thicknesses placed against each other. In this manner such parts or edges of the seams are inclosed, and otherwise the front of the drawers improved for use and wear, as is obvious. The material making the front ofthe drawers, as described, has a piece, D, at each side, which extends t0 the rear part of the drawers, and at and along its lower edge a seam,f, runs in a curvilinear line, and in a direction'and shape to cross the side of the person directly above the hip.

The rear part of the drawers has a seam, g, which, from the upper edge, h, ot' the drawers, extends in a curvilinear direction down to and joins the seam lof one leg A at m, bclow or at one'side ot' the center or crotch n, and by its seam o is connected to the balance, p, ofthe leg-seam l, between the point p and the center or crotch u, where seam-Z joins and continues with the seam r of the other leg A. These several seams above referred to are shown in Fig. 3, which represents in plan the two parts F and G, forming the-drawers, before being' sewed together, the several points of juncture above referred to, when sewed todered more comfortable for wear, give a fullness to suit the shape of the persn at the part covered by the rear part of the drawers, and prevent breaking or tearing away of the seams, as in drawers 'of the ordinary construe tion. The seam g can be curved so as to connect and join, as described, with either leg, as desired. 4

Having thus described myinventiomwhatl claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,

l. Drawers having the upper or seat portion made with a vertical curved seam joining the leg-seam below the crotch, and then by another seam, o, to the center or crotch of the drawers, substantially as described, for the IOO the curved seams g and o made in the seat or In testimony whereof I have hereunto set ro rear portion, substantiaily as and for the purmy hand in the presence of two subscribing pose desorlbed.

3. Drawers having the front part made of a number of vertical pieces, o, each cut with bis and stitched-together edges, and extensions D at each side, and a. vertical curved seam, g, made in the seat or rear portion, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

witnesses.

GEO. A. HOWE.

Witnesses EDWIN W. BROWN, W. S. BELLoWs. 

